The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-07-01

u. d. AuneIIOu,
Is hereby appointed to present the
foregoing resolutions and requests
to the King, and said Committee is
hereby instructed to request of the
King a personal answer to the same
be returned within twenty-four
hours of the time when the same
are presented: and to further inform
the King that his neglect to so an
swer the same within said time will
be construed as a refusal of the said
requests.
Resolved, That said committee,
in case of the Kings refusal to
grant said requests, or in case of
his neglect to reply to the same, is
authorized to call another mass
meeting at this place on Saturday,
July 2, at 2 p. NJ. to further consider
the situation.
Mr.. Bishop then assembled the
rostrum, and read-the following let
ter from the King
THURSDAY, June 80, 1887.
Hon. G. r. BIsneP, Member of the
House of Mobiles, Privy Council
lors of State, &c.
My Dear ,Sir:-Reposing es-
pecial confidence in your loyalty and
sound judgment as councillor, and
knowing your regard for our peo-
pie, we are moved to call upon you
in the present condition of affairs in
our Government, to say that we
have called upon the Hon. W.
L. Green to form a Cabinet and
a ministry which he may select and
which will be acceptable to the res
pectable and responsible majority
of our people will be welcome to us,
and any guarantees which may be
reasonably required of us under the
constitution and laws of our king
dom will be at once conceded to
such administration.
Your friend,
KALAKAUA.
Hon. w. L. Green was the first
speaker who spoke in support of the
resolutions, and said: l knew no
more than any of you about this
letter from the King. But here it
is in order for you to speak out
what you mean, but keep your
language firm and temperate. Three
years ago l remember there was a
meeting to protest against the bad
administration of Walter Murray
Gibson's cabinet. Then you passed
a number of resolutions expressing
condemnation of the cabinet, and
hoping that things would be better.
l wrote a letter that l thought the
Government was getting worse and
worse. We are here to-day because,
Notwithstanding that protest, and
Notwithstanding all the advice given
the King the Government has been
getting worse and worse and is now
something intolerable. Let your
attitude be firm; your united front
for the past few weeks has induced
His Majesty to resolve to turn over
new leaf. If he ultimately de-
cides-for we never know what is
going to happen in this country-if
it should ever happen that l should
head a Ministry L should conduct it
not only for His Majesty, but for
the country.
Mr.. w. Kinney said he was born
here and would try to live here I'M
der the Hawaiian flag, but he want
ed that flag to be clean. 1t would
not be clean unless they went much
further than the removal of the Glib.
son administration. He had been
reminded of the words of Lord
Chatham, cit Is time that the crown
were addressed in the language OF
truth" 1t is the hight of folly to
put four men into a hostile camp,
and support the tension to try and
keep them there. He wanted a good
constitution and anything less than
q new constitution would not suit
him. The words were on every
lip =" a new constitution and that
speedily" We cannot stand there
month after month under the ten
sion of the past six years. Let us
have peace. With good constitu-
ton we would have peace-peace
flowing like river. The franchise
will be reconstructed and the King
will have power as great as the
Queen of Great Britain, and that
ought to be enough for him. If to
his own rights he wants to add the
rights of seventy-five thousand sub
jects he is not going to have them.
The revolution of thought would be
followed by revolution of arms,
as it always had been, if our reason.
able requests were not granted.
The speaker pledged life, every cent
that he possessed and his sacred
honor, under that flag that sheltered
him from his birth. If the men
would not put this thing through the
women would. No man can stop OF
stay this movement now. The sails
are set, the ship is in motion; we
cannot 60 back. Push her forward
into the open sea.